Introduction

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 provides many tools to help make your slide show a complete multimedia production.

Before you can deliver a slide show, you need to set up for the type of show you want. Some presentations include slides that are appropriate for one audience but not for another. PowerPoint lets you create custom slide shows that include only a selection of slides, in whatever order you want, intended for a given audience.

A slide show can feature special visual, sound, and animation effects. For example, you can include special transitions , or actions, between slides. Using animations ”effects that animate your slide elements such as text flying in from the right ”you can also control how the audience first sees each element of the slide. PowerPoint includes tools that let you time your presentation to make sure that it is neither too long nor too short. You can also make a PowerPoint presentation come alive with the proper use of narration and music.

As you deliver your slide show, it's helpful to have speaker notes and handouts for your audience to follow. PowerPoint makes it easy to create and print presentation supplements, such as speaker notes, handouts, and transparencies .